6 March 1836 At 5.30a, Mexican forces make their final assault upon the mission-fortress Alamo. The attacking force comprises 2,400 men with an assault force of 1,600 attacking. The Texans and their Tejano allies inside the Alamo number about 188-240 men. After about an hour, the battle is over. Mexican forces lose about 600 men and all the Texians are killed. Their bodies are pulled out of Alamo, stacked in three separate funeral pyres and burned.

Today, March 10th1681 -
English Quaker William Penn receives charter from Charles II, making him
sole proprietor of colonial American territory Pennsylvania1849 - Abraham Lincoln applies for a patent; only US president to do so1862 - US issues 1st paper money ($5, $10, $20, $50, $100, $500 & $1000)1864 - Grant is named commander of the Union armies1864 - Red River campaign LA1865 - Battle of Monroe's Crossroads, NC1874 - Purdue University (Indiana) admits it's 1st student1902 - A United States court of appeals rules that Thomas Edison did not invent the movie camera.1933 - Major earthquake in Long Beach, Calif1933 - Nevada becomes 1st US state to regulate narcotics1945 - US troops lands on Mindanao1964 - US reconnaissance plane shot down over East Germany1969 - James Earl Ray pleads guilty in murder of Martin Luther King Jr1971 - Senate approves amendment lowering voting age to 181982 - The United States places an embargo on Libyan petroleum imports because of their support of terrorist groups.1990 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1918 - American Red Magen David (Jewish Red Cross) forms1925 - Tennessee makes it unlawful to teach evolution1963 - 2 Russian reconnaissance flights over Alaska1997 - The Phoenix lights were seen over Phoenix, Arizona by
hundreds of people, and by millions on television. They are now a hotly
debated controversy.2008 - Gold prices on the New York Mercantile Exchange hit $1,000.00 an ounce for the first time.

Battle of Powder River (1876) - The opening battle of the Black Hills War, between
the U.S. Army and the Sioux and Cheyennes, the
skirmish occurred in March, 1876 when Brigadier General George Crook advanced
north from Fort Fetterman in present day Wyoming. Discovering
an Indian trail, he sent Colonel Joseph J. Reynolds and six troops of the 2d and
3d Cavalry to find a village he suspected to be at the end of the trail. At dawn
on March 17th, in the Powder River Valley, Reynolds located and charged the
village. The surprised inhabitants fled from their lodges to the bluffs above
the valley, occupied the commanding heights, and poured a deadly fire at the
troops below. After burning most of the village, Reynolds captured the Indian
ponies and hastily retreated. That night the warriors surprised him and
recaptured all their ponies. Crook reunited his forces but, discouraged by the
setback, the shortage of supplies, and the bitter cold and deep snow, he
returned to Fort Fetterman to refit. If anything, he had succeeded only in
stiffening Indian resistance.

Today, the battle site is a privately owned
ranch. The Indian village was situated on the west side of the Powder River. In
1923 the river overflowed and covered the bottom land with about a foot of silt.
The mesa and bluffs from which the Indians counterattacked are unchanged. A
marker is located near the northern edge of Moorhead. The battle site is
accessible via an unimproved road, about four miles northeast of Moorhead,
Montana.

Very interesting, CV. Here an illustration to go with it - showing the return of Crooks' forces to Fort Fetterman:Sketch of General Crook's arrival at Fort Fetterman in Montana following
his unsuccessful 1876 Bighorn Expedition. Etching from Frank Leslie's
Magazine.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Powder_River

I'm perplexed by this one entry: Texas, a slave state until 1865, abolishes slavery.

In 1836 Texas had an estimated population of 38,470, only 5,000 of whom were slaves. The Texas Revolution assured slaveholders of the future of their institution. The Constitution of the Republic of Texas (1836) provided that slaves would remain the property of their owners, that the Texas Congress could not prohibit the immigration of slaveholders bringing their property, and that slaves could be imported from the United States (although not from Africa). Given those protections, slavery expanded rapidly during the period of the republic.

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